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<a href="food.html#OEI">OE Introduction</a></td>
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<a href="food.html#SBC">Scriftboc</a></td><td> &nbsp; <font face="arial" size="+1"><a href="food.html#CTH">Canons of Theodore</td>
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	 <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; "><a name="OEI">1.</a> OE Introduction</h3>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP190_368.html#S31.06.04" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S31.06.04</a></b>  They are murder and theft and false oaths and avarice and
	 fornication and gluttony and calumny and false witness. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP190_368.html#S31.06.04" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S31.06.04</a></b> And keep the twelve Ember Days that are in the year, and
	 guard yourself against witchcraft and sorcery and fornication and detraction and pride and
	 covetousness of other men's possessions; </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP190_368.html#S31.06.05" Title="Goes to the Corpus 190 manuscript">S31.06.05</a></b> guard yourself against all these things. </p>
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	 <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; "><a name="OEI">2.</a> Scriftboc</h3>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_87b.html#X01.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X01.01.01</a></b> If a bishop commits fornication secretly, according to the
	 judgment of the canon he is to fast for twelve years and give alms generously and with the
	 shedding of tears ask God's mercy for himself; some desire that he also be divested of holy
	 orders.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_87b.html#X01.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X01.02.01</a></b>  If a masspriest commits fornication, he is to fast 3 winters
	 and the 3 fasting periods, and each week he is to fast two days to evening.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_87b.html#X01.02.02" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X01.02.02</a></b>  If he fornicates with a nun, let his fast be greatly
	 increased--that is, seven years. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_87b.html#X01.03.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X01.03.01</a></b> A deacon is to fast three years if he fornicates, and also a monk.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_87b.html#X01.03.02" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X01.03.02</a></b> If he begets a child, he is to fast more severely, as the bishop or 
	 masspriest may judge for him.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_87b.html#X01.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X01.04.01</a></b> If a man without orders and not made a monk commits
	 fornication, he is to fast twelve months; if he begets a child, he is to fast four years; if he slays
	 the child, he is to fast seven years. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_88a.html#X02.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X02.01.01</a></b> If a layman who has a wife defiles another man's wife or a
	 virgin, he is to fast one year; </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_88a.html#X02.01.02" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X02.01.02</a></b> if she has a child, he is to fast three years.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_88a.html#X02.01.03" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X02.01.03</a></b> If he then is unmarried, he is to fast for seven years; some
	 wish (it to be) ten. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_88a.html#X02.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X02.02.01</a></b> He who has intercourse with his mother or sister or
	 daughter is to fast twelve (years); however, let the priest observe what condition he is in.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_88a.html#X02.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X02.04.01</a></b> Whoever releases seed into the mouth is to fast seven years.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_88a.html#X02.05.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X02.05.01</a></b> Whichever man has intercourse with his female slave is to fast for one year. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_88a.html#X03.06.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X03.06.01</a></b> If a priest kisses a woman in his desire, he is to repent that
	 twenty days. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_88b.html#X03.07.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X03.07.01</a></b> If a priest is defiled because he touched a woman, he is to
	 fast forty days; some wish (it to be) thirty days.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_88b.html#X03.08.02" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X03.08.02</a></b> If he touches (her?) with his hands, he is to fast for three weeks.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_88b.html#X03.10.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X03.10.01</a></b> He who then commits fornication often, the canon
	 ordains that he is to fast ten years, some wish seven (years), and, with counsel, three
	 (years).</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_88b.html#X04.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X04.01.01</a></b> If a small boy has been forced by a larger one into 
	 intercourse, he (is to fast) 5 nights. If he consents to it, he is to fast fifteen nights.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_89a.html#X05.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X05.01.01</a></b> Whichever freeman has intercourse with his wife during
	 the menstrual period is to fast forty days.  And whoever drinks a man's blood or his seed is to
	 fast for five years. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_89a.html#X05.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X05.02.01</a></b> Whoever fornicates in church, let the bishop judge that and then punish 
	 as it seems right to him. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_91a.html#X09.07.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X09.07.01</a></b> If any man's wife commit fornication, the man may leave her and take 
	 another if that was his first wife.  If it was his second or third wife, he may not then
	 take another wife.  If that woman wishes to do (penance) for her wicked deed, after five years
	 she may take another man. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_91a.html#X09.09.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X09.09.01</a></b> Whichever man forsakes his wife and joins himself in
	 fornication, he is to fast a hard fast seven years or fifteen more lightly. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_91a.html#X09.10.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X09.10.01</a></b> Whoever it is who does many evil deeds, in murder and fornication 
	 with beasts and with women, let him go into the monastery and fast forever until the
	 end of his days, if he has done very many evil things.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_91a.html#X10.01.00" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X10.01.00</a></b> XII Concerning the holiness of monks and priests </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_91a.html#X10.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X10.01.01</a></b> If a monk or a consecrated virgin fornicates, he or she is
	 to fast for seven years; some wish (it to be) three years.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_91a.html#X10.03.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X10.03.01</a></b> If a priest kills a man or fornicates, let him be cast out of
	 his orders. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_91b.html#X10.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X10.04.01</a></b> One is not allowed to give a wife to a young man if he has
	 previously agreed to a monastic vow.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_91b.html#X11.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X11.02.01</a></b> If a male and female slave join themselves in sexual union
	 with mutual consent <span style="position: relative;" onmouseover="this.T_FONTSIZE='12px'; this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=5; this.T_SHADOWCOLOR='#553355'; this.T_TITLE='Note';return escape( 'The translator misunderstood \'conjunxerit dominus amborum\' (\'if the master of both joins\' them) as \'heora begra willes\' (with the consent of both) presumably in analogy with the same phrase in the following canon. See Spindler, p. 44.');"><img src="pics/note.jpg"/></span>
	 and thereafter one of them is set free and cannot redeem the other one, whichever one of them is
	 free may obtain freedom for the slave. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_91b.html#X11.03.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X11.03.01</a></b> If a freeman takes a slave woman as a wife, he may not
	 forsake her afterwards if they had been [joined] with mutual consent. <span style="position: relative;" onmouseover="this.T_FONTSIZE='12px'; this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=5; this.T_SHADOWCOLOR='#553355'; this.T_TITLE='Note';return escape( 'The Latin says \'if they were formerly united with mutual consent.\'  MSS XS \'&eth;eowe,\' slave, is an error for \'ge&eth;eodde,\' joined; see below 11.07.01.');"><img src="pics/note.jpg"/></span></p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_94a.html#X15.06.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X15.06.01</a></b> The same fasting period applies to a widow and a girl;
	 a greater (fasting peiod) applies to a woman who has a husband if she desires fornication.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_94a.html#X15.07.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X15.07.01</a></b> A woman is not allowed to take a vow without the consent of her husband;</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_94a.html#X15.08.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X15.08.01</a></b> nor is a woman allowed to leave her husband even though he commits fornication.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_94a.html#X15.09.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X15.09.01</a></b> A man is not allowed to have intercourse with his wife forty days before Easter, 
	 nor seven days before Pentecost nor forty days before Midyear (Christmas)</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_94a.html#X15.11.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X15.11.01</a></b> A woman who drinks her husband's blood as a remedy must fast forty days. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_100b.html#X26.11.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X26.11.01</a></b> If any young man has intercourse outside of a proper marriage, 
	 he is to repent for one year;  </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_100b.html#X26.11.02" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X26.11.02</a></b> if he did it once and without forethought, let his penance
	 be lighter, but nevertheless repenting for a full year;</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_100b.html#X26.11.03" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X26.11.03</a></b> and if they are young people under twenty years and are
	 guilty in this way, they are to do penance for the Lenten fasts and on Wednesdays and Fridays for
	 an entire year;<span style="position: relative;" onmouseover="this.T_FONTSIZE='12px'; this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=5; this.T_SHADOWCOLOR='#553355'; this.T_TITLE='Note';return escape( '\'Lenctenf&aelig;st\' here corresponds to Latin \'quadragesimus,\' but the usual term for the three 40-day fasting periods in this text is \'af&aelig;stenu.\'');"><img src="pics/note.jpg"/></span></p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_100b.html#X26.11.04" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X26.11.04</a></b> And if they then are rebuked because of this sin, let
	 them repent forty days, and if they then begin that (act) and do not complete it, they are to repent
	 twenty days;</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_100b.html#X26.12.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X26.12.01</a></b> if any widow commits fornication, she is to repent for one
	 year and the prescribed Ember days of the year;</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_100b.html#X26.12.02" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X26.12.02</a></b> and if she then has a child, she is to do penance for two
	 years fully and for another two less severely.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_101a.html#X26.13.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X26.13.01</a></b> If any unmarried man defiles another's wife, he is to repent
	 two years;</p> 
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_101a.html#X26.13.02" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X26.13.02</a></b> and if someone who lives in proper marriage defile a
	 bachelor, <span style="position: relative;" onmouseover="this.T_FONTSIZE='12px'; this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=5; this.T_SHADOWCOLOR='#553355'; this.T_TITLE='Note';return escape( 'Should read \'virgin.\'');"><img src="pics/note.jpg"/></span> he is to repent for two years and
	 abstain from his own (wife), if she consented to that.  If he did it out of need, his penance should
	 be greater. </p>
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<p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_146a.html#B61.01.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B61.01.01</a></b> Then he, St. Gregory, said, "Sadly I say that everywhere among the Italian people, there are Christians living who, I have heard, act very boldly against the holy faith and the judgments of all the holy fathers, (and) that they are so bold that they are taking the holy nuns who are consecrated to God for themselves as companions, and also that related men (are taking as companions) of their own kin. </p>
<p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_146a.html#B61.02.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B61.02.01</a></b> So that it seems fitting to us to cut them off with the two-edged sword from the holy word of God, lest because they have taken the handmaidens of God in marriage the field of these good lands be filled with the bushes of evil weeds.
</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_147b.html#B65.03.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B65.04.01</a></b> If any man's wife commits fornication secretly, then it is 
	 permitted to him that he forsake her and take another.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_147b.html#B65.04.02" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B65.04.02</a></b> It is not permitted to the woman that she forsake her
	 husband without permission even if he is a fornicator. <span style="position: relative;" onmouseover="this.T_FONTSIZE='12px'; this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=5; this.T_SHADOWCOLOR='#553355'; this.T_TITLE='Note';return escape( 'B65.04.02 is corrupt and could be emended to \'&thorn;eah he dearnunga forlicge,\' as Scriftboc S51.08.01 or \'&thorn;eah he forlegen beo\'; see Y65.04.02.');"><img src="pics/note.jpg"/></span>
	 But Basilius judged that she may go into a monastery if she wishes.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_148a.html#B65.05.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B65.05.01</a></b> Whoever fornicates on Sunday, let him ask for God's
	 forgiveness and fast three days.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_149a.html#B69.02.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B69.02.01</a></b> If anyone fornicate with his mother, he must fast for
	 15 years and never change that except on Sunday alone.
	 </p>
	 	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_149b.html#B69.04.02" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B69.04.02</a></b> If he touches the breast with his hand he is to fast 3 weeks.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_150a.html#B73.01.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B73.01.01</a></b> If anyone fornicate with a virgin, he is to fast for 4 years
	 or 2 to the fullest.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_150a.html#B73.01.02" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B73.01.02</a></b> Whoever fornicates with another man's wife must fast for
	 4 years, 2 years wandering in grief, 2 (years) more (fasting) during the 40-day periods and 3 days
	 each week. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_150a.html#B75.03.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B75.03.01</a></b> Who ejaculates seed into the mouth, that is the worst
	 evil. </p> 
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_150a.html#B75.04.03" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B75.04.03</a></b>  He who often fornicates, the first canon judged that he
	 repent for 10 years and the second (canon) for 7 years.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_.150ahtml#B75.06.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B75.06.01</a></b> If a mother fornicate with her little son ("on hire"?), she 
	 must not taste meat for 3 years and fast 1 day in the week up to eventide.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_150a.html#B75.07.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B75.07.01</a></b> Whoever defiles himself with fornication in thought
	 must do penance until that thought is overcome.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_150b.html#B75.08.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B75.08.01</a></b> Whoever loves a virgin in his mind, let him ask God's
	 forgiveness. If he says that he would have (her) and he does not have her, he must fast for  7
	 days. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_151a.html#B76.05.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B76.05.01</a></b> He who often commits many capital sins, that is murder,
	 false oaths, and evil fornication with women and with animals, he must forsake those evid deeds and
	 go into a monastery and repent until his death.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_151b.html#B77.01.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B77.01.01</a></b> If a bishop or a masspriest fornicate, they must forsake
	 their order or vacate their office (lit. "hastily cease").</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_151b.html#B77.02.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B77.02.01</a></b> If a bishop or a masspriest touch a woman sinfully or
	 with a kiss, so that he is polluted, he is to fast for 40 days.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_151b.html#B77.02.02" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B77.02.02</a></b> If a masspriest kiss a woman on account of his lust, he
	 must fast for 20 days.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_152b.html#B77.04.09" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B77.04.09</a></b> If a man fornicate with his wife from the rear, he must
	 fast for 40 days.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_152b.html#B77.04.10" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B77.04.10</a></b> In another place it says that he must repent as he does
	 who fornicates with animals.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_152b.html#B77.04.11" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B77.04.11</a></b> If he fornicates with her in the month before birth he must
	 fast for 40 days. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="BX8558_153a.html#B78.03.012" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B78.03.01</a></b> Whoever fornicates with his sister must fast for 12
	 years.</p>
	 <br/>
	 <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; "><a name="OEP">4.</a> OE Penitential</h3>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_3a.html#Y41.08.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y41.08.02</a></b> These are the vanities of this world:  first is pride, and
	 hatred, and envy, and anger, and theft, and drunkenness, and luxury, and fornication, and
	 witchcraft, and avarice, and robbery, and sorcery, and manslaughter, and many other similar
	 things.</p>  
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_5a.html#Y42.02.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.02.00</a></b> Concerning women who fornicate and then kill their children for fear </p>
	 <p><b><a href="LAUD482_5a.html#Y42.06.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.06.00</a></b>  Concerning those men who fornicate illicitly, that is with
	 animals, or soil themselves with young ones, or a man who has sex with another </p>
	 <p><b><a href="LAUD482_5a.html#Y42.07.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.07.00</a></b> Concerning those who commit adultery or have an
	 adulterous spouse</p>
	 <p><b><a href="LAUD482_5a.html#Y42.08.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.08.00</a></b> Concerning the man who has a wife and also a concubine </p>
	 <p><b><a href="LAUD482_5a.html#Y42.09.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.09.00</a></b> Concerning the man who leaves his wife, and concerning 
	 the wife who leaves her husband and chooses another </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_5a.html#Y42.10.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.10.00</a></b> Concerning the man who has a lawful wife and who consorts with a foreign woman </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_5a.html#Y42.11.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.11.00</a></b> Concerning a man who marries two sisters, or a woman
	 who takes one brother after the other </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_5a.html#Y42.12.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.12.00</a></b> Concerning a wife who is married, that it is not permitted that another man deprive him (her husband) of
	 her </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_5a.html#Y42.13.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.13.00</a></b> Concerning a man 
	 who abducts a wife or maiden for unlawful purposes </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_5b.html#Y42.14.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.14.00</a></b> Concerning the man who seduces the woman from his lord, 
	 who is his steward, for unlawful fornication </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_5b.html#Y42.16.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.16.00</a></b> When a virgin in orders rushes into fornication</p> 
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_5b.html#Y42.17.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.17.00</a></b> Concerning the virgin outside orders who rushes into
	 unlawful fornication </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_5b.html#Y41.19.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.19.00</a></b> How St. Gregory spoke concerning unlawful
	 fornication</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_5b.html#Y42.20.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.20.00</a></b> Concerning the man who marries repeatedly</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_7a.html#Y42.10.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.10.01</a></b>  If any man fornicates with another's lawful wife, or the
	 wife with another's lawful husband, he or she is to fast 7 years, 3 on bread and
	 water and 4 as his or her confessor prescribes for him or her.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_7a.html#Y42.13.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.13.01</a></b> If someone with fraud forcibly takes a wife or maiden in
	 unlawful fornication against her will, he is to be excommunicated.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_7b.html#Y42.14.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.14.01</a></b> If someone with his deceit seduce another man's
	 attendant from him for the purpose of fornication, and fornicate with her against her will, if he is a man in
	 orders, he is to forfeit his orders; if he is a layman, he is to be excommunicated.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_8a.html#Y42.17.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.17.01</a></b> If any virgin dwells in fellowship with those in orders and
	 she aspires to the same orders and under them through the devil's temptation enters into
	 fornication, she is not without fault before God, even though she were not in orders, because previously she intended
	 that she would become God's bride. Then it is greatly needful to her that she confesses her
	 misdeeds and repents as her confessor prescribes for her.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_8b.html#Y41.19.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.19.01</a></b> If anyone takes as wife a nun who is called a bride of God, 
	 he is to be excommunicated from the community of faithful men. The holy
	 books say that he is just as guilty against Christ as the king's slave would be if he fornicated
	 with the king's bed companion.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_11b.html#Y43.04.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y43.04.01</a></b> God's priests and deacons and other servants of God who
	 are to serve in God's temple and handle holy things and holy books must always remain chaste. 
	 Then if any man so disposed should fall into fornication, he is to confess to his confessor and
	 repent as he prescribes for him. For the Savior said, "Keep ye holy, for I the Lord God and your
	 master am holy." <span style="position: relative;" onmouseover="this.T_FONTSIZE='12px'; this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=5; this.T_SHADOWCOLOR='#553355'; this.T_TITLE='Note';return escape( 'Lev. 19.2.');"><img src="pics/note.jpg"/></span></p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_14b.html#Y44.03.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.03.01</a></b> If any bishop commits fornication or adultery, he is
	 to fast 12 years, and the masspriest and monk 10 years, and the deacon 7 years, and the cleric 6
	 years, and the layman 5 years, each according to his rank as it is written above concerning
	 manslaughter. <span style="position: relative;" onmouseover="this.T_FONTSIZE='12px'; this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=5; this.T_SHADOWCOLOR='#553355'; this.T_TITLE='Note';return escape( 'This manuscript is missing the following canon, translated here from JUNIUS 121: [X44.04.01] If any man in orders, bishop or masspriest or monk or deacon, had a spouse before he was ordained, and for God\'s love abandoned (that union) and accepted orders, and he then afterwards turns again to fornication, each is to fast according to his rank as it is written above concerning manslaughter.');"><img src="pics/note.jpg"/></span></p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_14b.html#Y44.05.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.05.01</a></b> If anyone fornicate with a nun who is wedded to God
	 Himself as a bride: if a bishop does it, he is to fast 12 years, 7 on bread and water and for 5 years
	 he is to fast 3 days each week on bread and water, and on the others partake of his food. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_14b.html#Y44.05.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.05.02</a></b> If it is a masspriest or monk, he is to fast 10 years, 5 on
	 bread and water and for 5 years he is to fast 3 days each week on bread and water, and on the
	 others partake of his food without meat only.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_15a.html#Y44.05.03" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.05.03</a></b> If it is a deacon, he is to fast 7 years, 3 on bread and
	 water and for 4 fast 3 days each week on bread and water, and on the others partake of his food
	 without meat only.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_15a.html#Y44.05.04" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.05.04</a></b> If it is a cleric or layman, he is to fast 6 years, 3 on bread
	 and water and for 3 (years he is to) fast 3 days each week on bread and water, and on the others
	 partake of his food without meat only, and the nun is to fast 10 years just as it is written above
	 concerning masspriests.</p>  
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_15a.html#Y44.06.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.06.01</a></b> If anyone wishes to fornicate with a nun and she does not
	 consent, he is to fast one year on bread and water for his unrighteous desire.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_15a.html#Y44.07.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.07.01</a></b> If anyone wishes to fornicate with another man's lawful
	 spouse and she does not consent, he is to fast one year for his unrighteous desire, one Lenten fast
	 (i.e., 40 days) before midsummer, another before the harvest-time equinox, and the third before
	 midwinter.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_15a.html#Y44.08.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.08.01</a></b> If anyone wishes to fornicate unlawfully with a woman
	 and she does not consent, he is to fast 40 days and nights on bread and water.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_15a.html#Y44.09.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.09.01</a></b> If anyone deprive another of his daughter by force, he is
	 to make amends to the relative and each of them is to fast 1 year on Wednesdays and Fridays on
	 bread and water and on the other days partake of their food except for meat, and afterwards he is
	 to take her in lawful marriage if the relative wishes it.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="LAUD482_15b.html#Y44.10.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.10.01</a></b> If the devil so far undermines anyone that he
	 fornicates with animals, he is to confess to his confessor and fast 15 years, 8 on bread and water and for 7
	 years to fast the 3 forty-day periods on bread and water, one Lenten fast before Easter, another
	 during Pentecost, and the third before midwinter, and ever after fast on Wednesdays and Fridays
	 as long as he lives.</p>
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	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_118.html#D54.17.02" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.17.02</a></b>  If a ceorl fornicates with another's lawful spouse, or
	 the wife with another's lawful spouse, he (or she) is to fast 7 years, 3 on bread and water and
	 4 as his (or her) confessor prescribes for him (or her) to do, and to repent his (or her) misdeeds
	 ever after. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_119.html#D54.21.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.21.01</a></b>  If someone with fraud takes a woman or a maiden
	 forcibly in unlawful fornication against her will, he is to be excommunicated. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_119.html#D54.22.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.22.01</a></b>  If someone with his craftiness seduces another man's
	 attendant for fornication, and against her will fornicate with her, if he is a man in orders, he is to
	 forfeit his rank; if he is a layman, he is to be excommunicated from all Christian
	 affairs.</p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_119.html#D54.27.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.27.01</a></b>  If a masspriest or a monk commit fornication or adultery,
	 he is to fast for 10 years and repent ever after; if a deacon, 7 years; if a cleric, six; if a
	 layman, five, as with manslaughter. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_119.html#D54.28.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.28.01</a></b>  If a masspriest or a monk or a deacon had a lawful
	 wife before he was in orders and he leaves her in order to receive orders, and afterwards through
	 fornication takes her again, each one of them is to fast as for manslaughter, and they should
	 repent greatly. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_119.html#D54.28.02" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.28.02</a></b>  If a masspriest or a monk or a deacon or a layman or a
	 cleric fornicates with a nun, each one of them is to fast as befits his rank, as for manslaughter, and
	 ever after he shall forgo meat; and the nun (is to fast for) 10 years as the masspriest, and repent
	 ever after. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_119.html#D54.29.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.29.01</a></b>  If anyone wishes to fornicate with a nun and she does not
	 wish to, he is to fast for 1 year for that unrighteous wish on
	 bread and water. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_119.html#D54.30.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.30.01</a></b>  If someone wishes to fornicate with another's lawful wife,
	 and she does not wish to, he is to fast for the 3 fasting periods on bread and water, 1 in summer,
	 1 at harvest time, the third in the winter. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_120.html#D54.31.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.31.01</a></b>  If someone wishes to fornicate unlawfully with a woman,
	 he is to fast for forty days on bread and water. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_121.html#D54.32.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.32.01</a></b>  If anyone take by force the daughter of another, he must
	 make amends to the friend, and both of them fast 1 year on Wednesday and Friday and the other
	 days take their food, except for meat, and betake themselves into (take one another in) lawful
	 marriage. </p>
	 <p>
	 <b><a href="CORP201_121.html#D54.33.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D54.33.01</a></b>  If anyone fornicates with an animal, he is to fast fifteen
	 years, 8 on bread and water and for seven, each year, the 3 forty-day periods and on
	 Wednesday and Friday as long as he live and repent the misdeed ever after. </p>
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